Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 13, 1950, in the afternoon, a crowd of civilians at the courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida, watched a shiny object high in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the…

On July 1, 1950, around 5 a.m., a newspaper reporter in the Riverside area of Jacksonville, Florida, reported seeing strange objects in the sky. The witness was a female civilian,…

On November 5, 1950, near Jonesville, Louisiana, members of a farm family reported objects in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On October 7, 1950, about 7:25 p.m. local time, a civilian on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, reported a glowing object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official…

On May 17, 1950, a 13-year-old boy in Kenosha, Wisconsin reported sighting a bright light at 8:30 p.m. The light was between 10,000 and 15,000 feet altitude and moved in a direct a…

# Two Sightings Over Key West, November 1950 On the nights of November 14 and 15, 1950, military radar and pilots detected two unidentified aircraft operating in restricted airspa…

On February 7, 1950, several people reported a fireball or unidentified object over the Albuquerque and Kirtland Air Force Base area in New Mexico. The investigation began with inf…

On September 20, 1950, about 10:49 a.m., a driver between Kit Carson and Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, reported five objects in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Fo…

On March 1, 2, and 3, 1950, a radar station near Knoxville, Tennessee, tracked unidentified targets on three nights in a row. The station reported the objects to the Atomic Energy…

On the night of October 12, 1950, and again on October 13, an unidentified radar target appeared on screens at McGhee-Tyson Airport near Knoxville, Tennessee, over the restricted a…

On the nights of November 29 and 30, 1950, radar operators at McGhee-Tyson Airport near Knoxville, Tennessee detected unusual blips on their radar screens that alarmed military and…

On April 8, 1950, around 2 a.m., a sheet metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana, reported an object after being awakened by his dog. He said he saw an object about 200 feet up, almost dir…

On July 22, 1950, at 1710 hours (5:10 p.m. Alaska time), military personnel stationed at Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska spotted an unusual object in the sky. Several airm…

Around April 1950, in or near Lafayette, Indiana, the Air Force opened a record about a man who contacted them. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record s…

On the night of November 7, 1950, a Navy pilot flying an AD-6 aircraft approached Lakehurst Naval Air Station at about 3,500 feet. He spotted a steady white light off his right win…

On December 27, 1950, shortly before 9:20 p.m., two naval tower operators at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey spotted an unusual light in the southeastern sky. The operato…

On October 11, 1950, a worker at the Lark Tunnel in Lark, Utah saw an unusual object cross the night sky. The man, a compressor operator, was working at approximately 2210 hours (1…

On March 17, 1950, around 4:30 p.m., a flight operator preparing to land at Adams Field in Little Rock, Arkansas, reported one or more objects. He was about 500 feet up in the land…

On the evening of March 15, 1950, several people in the Little Silver area of New Jersey reported seeing three distinct white vapor trails moving across the sky. The sightings occu…

In December 1950, in London, England, news broadcasts reported small transparent objects that resembled bricks or ice falling from the sky over Great Britain. The report is part of…

On December 21, 1950, about 7:40 a.m., a civilian reported a bright object near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for uni…

On the evening of December 24, 1950, a bright, glowing object appeared in the sky above Los Alamos, New Mexico, an atomic research facility. An observer stationed at the junction o…

On February 25, 1950, Atomic Energy Security Service inspectors at Los Alamos, New Mexico, reported an unusual aerial object. The sighting happened between about 3:45 p.m. and 3:56…

On the evening of January 9, 1950, three scientists at Los Alamos, New Mexico watched a bright object streak across the sky. The sighting lasted only about two seconds. All three o…

On March 29, 1950, around 7 a.m., two real estate salesmen fishing on Marrowbone Lake near Nashville, Tennessee, reported a group of objects. The lake is about 18 miles from Nashvi…

On March 29, 1950, at 8:02 p.m., a military observer at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama reported an unidentified flying object over the runway heading 255 degrees. The object app…

On Thanksgiving Day 1950, a military officer at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama saw four unusual objects moving across the sky in just over fifteen minutes. Between 3:08 p.m. and…

On November 13, 1950, military pilots and ground observers in Mississippi reported seeing an unusual object in the sky that remained unidentified by the U.S. Air Force. The main s…

On June 21, 1950, at 11:30 a.m. at Misawa Air Base, Japan, an AF Officer sighted a highly polished silver circular object. The object was 20 feet in diameter and 5 feet thick, flyi…

On the evening of June 23, 1950, witnesses across a broad stretch of the southern United States saw a brilliant ball of fire streak across the sky. The object was visible to people…

On March 22, 1950, around 1 p.m., a civilian restaurant operator near Montpelier, Vermont, reported two objects. He said he first saw an aircraft at high altitude leaving three or…

On March 27, 1950, at approximately 10:30 a.m., a radar operator at a gun position on Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, detected an unidentified object on radar. The object was first pick…

On September 26, 1950, about 8:36 p.m. Pacific time, two Air Force navigators reported an object near the Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. The report is part of Project 10073…

On September 17, 1950, residents around Nashville and Cookeville, Tennessee, reported odd streaks of light in the sky shortly before 6 p.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the…

On October 20, 1950, about 6:15 p.m., a civilian near New Haven, Connecticut, reported a bright object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for uni…

On October 10, 1950, a father and son in New Orleans watched a bright, noiseless object hover in the sky for five to ten minutes. The object glowed with a whitish-blue light and ap…

On April 12, 1950, around 11:30 p.m., a man in New Orleans, Louisiana, was awakened in bed by his wife, who saw an object through the window. Their home was just behind the levee o…

On the night of April 10, 1950, four separate observers in New Orleans, Louisiana reported seeing an unidentified aerial object moving rapidly across the sky. All sightings occurre…

On August 20, 1950, around 11:30 a.m. local time, a U.S. military officer at Nicosia Airfield, Cyprus, saw a bright object. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's offic…

On the evening of November 2, 1950, two flying officers stationed north of Rome, New York reported observing a bright blue-white flash of light. The event occurred at 1935 hours (7…

On December 5, 1950, two people reported an object over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, between about 12:45 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official r…

Between 0820 and 0830 hours on December 18, 1950, seven officials traveling in two cars on the turnpike near Oak Ridge, Tennessee spotted an unidentified flying object. About the s…

On March 9, 1950, many people in Orangeburg, South Carolina, reported a disk that hovered over the city for about 15 minutes, then left a vapor trail and disappeared. Witnesses inc…

On February 7, 1950, two USAF pilots near Otto, New Mexico, reported a sighting during daylight hours. The witnesses did not actually see the object itself but observed a bright wh…

On March 16, 1950, at 7:30 a.m., an unidentified object was sighted near Pacific Beach, Washington. An AF Tech Rep observed the object for 4 minutes from the ground. The object fir…

On February 7, 1950, two separate sightings were reported to the Air Force. In Palo Alto, California, a female attorney reported observing a fiery tail object at 5:50 p.m. moving s…

On July 8, 1950, between about 2:00 and 2:02 p.m., Coast Guardsmen aboard a ship in Peril Strait, Alaska, saw an object overhead. The witnesses were military crew members. The weat…

On the afternoon of March 14, 1950, a man standing in front of his service station in Piggott, Arkansas saw an unusual object in the sky. He first noticed a four-engine transport p…

# Pope Air Force Base UFO Sighting, October 1950 In October 1950, a commercial airline pilot reported an unusual encounter near Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. Captain Geor…

On September 29, 1950, near Poplar Bluff, Missouri, a pilot and others reported an object in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unide…

On September 21, 1950, a radar operator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spotted an unidentified object on his screen while tracking two F-86 jet aircraft near Province…

In July 1950, near Pullman, Washington, a Navy officer passed along a secondhand story about a saucer shaped metal object. The report was based on what a college police chief told…

On April 10, 1950, around 4 a.m., two men at the station hospital at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, reported an object. A sergeant arriving for duty first saw a red flash in the s…

In November 1950, in Rome, Georgia, five people reported seeing two strange discs about 2:30 p.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentif…

On March 17, 1950, a female civilian reported an object while driving between East Norwich and Roslyn, on Long Island, New York. At about 9:30 a.m. she first saw what looked like a…

On March 24 and 25, 1950, people in the Santiago area of Chile, including San Bernardo and Valparaiso, reported a flying disc. The description matched earlier reports being quoted…

In March 1950, people in several parts of Chile reported a shiny object in the sky. The first sighting was at Punta Arenas on March 11 around noon. Many residents saw it appear to…

On September 29, 1950, at 4:45 a.m., a member of the U.S. Army stationed at Sandia Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, spotted an unidentified object while driving a jeep in the Igl…

On February 7, 1950, a sighting was reported in the San Francisco, California area. A single object was observed from the ground for 10 minutes. The object was described as conical…

On the morning of November 3, 1950, a bright, round object appeared in the sky directly above San Francisco. Multiple witnesses saw it from the Southern Pacific Freight Yard near 4…